This sounds like a giant strawman to me. Where do programmers get the idea that a mode called 'shuffle' would call for sampling with replacement? The obvious so

This sounds like a giant strawman to me. Where do programmers get the idea that a mode called 'shuffle' would call for sampling with replacement? The obvious software analogy to shuffling would be re-ordering a list randomly, not randomly drawing from a list. I think this whole shuffling meme started with Spotify's engineers misunderstanding what they were asked to do, then claiming their customers don't know what they want when they obviously delivered the wrong feature.